Augmented Medicine: Changing Clinical Practice with Artificial Intelligence

Smart medical technologies are augmenting clinical practice by offering the patient an increased autonomy and the clinician more advanced tools to predict, detect, monitor, and treat diseases. Augmented Medicine, a new framework of techniques that extends to clinical practice from the applied medical research aiming to introduce and improve tools, is rapidly gaining popularity. In this chapter, we will outline the principles of Augmented Medicine and its main applications in clinical practice, as well as future directions of this promising field.